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From a photograph made for Popular Radio |
A LIVE NEWS STORY IN THE AIR |
The newspaper of the near future will not depend solely upon wires for collecting its information. Today stories are being received by city editors from reporters miles away who use radio-equipped motor cars. The picture shows W. P. B. McNeary of the Newark Sunday Call, receiving a news item by radio. |
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THE PRESS GALLERY AT THE FIRST FOOTBALL GAME EVER BROADCASTED |
The reporter using the telephone is "Sandy" Hunt, former Cornell guard, reporting the first intercollegiate contest that was ever described by radio, play by play, in October, 1921. The story was sent from the field to the operating room of station WJZ at Newark over a private wire, whence it was broadcasted. Several intercollegiate games were similarly reported later that season. |
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From a photograph made for Popular Radio |
THE FIRST AUTOMOBILE TRANSMITTING STATION TO BE LICENSED |
Equipped with a radio transmitting set, this car was sent out on a news assignment by the Newark Sunday Call on May 6, 1922--the first recorded instance of its kind. The car bears the call letters 2CNJ. In the Picture Emery H. Lee, the radio inspector is seen measuring the wavelength, which was exactly 200 meters. |
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THE POWER PLANT OF THE RADIO STATION OF A MIDDLE-WESTERN DAILY |
One of the best-equipped transmitting stations in the country is WWJ, maintained by the Detroit News for broadcasting both entertainment and news features. The picture shows the 5½ H.P. motor, driving a 1600-volt, 1-kilowatt plate current generator and a 16-volt, 615-watt filament current-generator, providing power for the transmitter tubes. |
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REPORTING A WORLD'S SERIES BY RADIO |
The sporting editor, G. A. Falzer, is here seen using an ordinary telephone for reporting the baseball games at the Polo grounds, New York, in 1921. But his telephonic talk went to a broadcasting station, where it was broadcasted. |
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THE FIRST TIME THAT A HORSE RACE WAS BROADCASTED |
The methods of the race-track crooks who swindle guileless bettors by "tips" over private wires will have to change when racing news is reported by radio. The officials at the Bowie (Maryland) track recently transmitted the results of the races by radio--although although in this particular picture the results are apparently being transmitted by a receiving set. |
"The building is still burning. Firemen with their oxygen helmets are feeling their way through the smoke . . . A child has been found . . . It is alive . . . It's mother is weeping"----So the reports of the future will go out. The idea seems fantastic? So did the application of radio to Boyle's Bowl a year ago.
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